Queer’s Drew Starkey on Daniel Craig: ‘We were so comfortable with our love scenes – it wasn’t a big deal at all’ After playing the former 007’s object of desire in Luca Guadagnino’s very erotic new drama, the ‘Outer Banks’ actor is poised for stardom.
There, Craig’s sozzled novelist William Lee – an analogue for the writer of the film’s source material, beatnic icon William S Burroughs – is completely enraptured by the beauty of Starkey’s Eugene Allerton, a pansexual hustler who drifts through the bars and cafés of Fifties Mexico City.
And when Starkey first saw the completed Queer this summer at the Venice Film Festival – where it drew raves – he couldn’t help but marvel at one key element.
But only because in Queer, his ayahuasca-fuelled romantic drama with Daniel Craig, Starkey is positively glowing.
It’s enough to confirm that, yes, Starkey is incredibly good-looking, but not the kind of “sweet holy Moses, I’m-going-to-doom-myself-to-a-life-of-sad-gay-pining-if-I-don’t-have-you” good-looking that he embodies in Queer.
